BILL NUMBER: SB 586 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 28, 1999
INTRODUCED BY Senator Costa
FEBRUARY 23, 1999
An act to amend Sections 2550, 2561, 2562, 2563, 2566, and 14054
of, to amend and repeal Section 2551 of, and to add Section 2567 to,
the Education Code, relating to education finance.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 586, as amended, Costa. School finance: equalization
adjustments.
(1) Existing
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to make certain computations to determine the amount to
be allocated for direct services and other purposes provided by
county superintendents of schools and to determine each county
superintendent's revenue limit for county superintendent
responsibilities and direct services. Existing law sets forth a
method for equalizing the revenue limits for county offices of
education for the 1995-96 fiscal year. Existing law defines the term
"general purpose revenues" for the purposes of this method.
This bill would repeal, as of July January
1, 2000, the existing formulas for determining each county
superintendent's revenue limit for county superintendent
responsibilities and services. The bill would delete the term
"general purpose revenues" and replace it with the term "core
revenues." The bill would require the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to apportion equalization funding for the 1999-2000
fiscal year to certain county offices of education in prescribed
amounts. The bill would make various conforming changes to existing
provisions of law, including changes to the computations to be made
by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to determine the amounts
to be allocated for direct and other services provided by county
superintendents of schools.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 2550 of the Education Code is amended to read:
2550. For each fiscal year, the Superintendent of Public
Instruction shall make the following computations to determine the
amount to be allocated for direct services and other purposes
provided by county superintendents of schools:
(a) For programs operated pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section
14054, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall:
(1) Determine the allowances that county superintendents received
per unit of average daily attendance in the prior fiscal year. The
Superintendent of Public Instruction shall increase each amount by a
percentage equal to the inflation allowance calculated for the
current fiscal year pursuant to Section 2557.
(2) Multiply each amount determined in paragraph (1) by the actual
number of units of average daily attendance in the prior fiscal year
for programs maintained by each county superintendent. For purposes
of this paragraph, the number of units of average daily attendance
shall include only units generated by elementary districts with less
than 901 units of average daily attendance, high school districts
with less than 301 units of average daily attendance, and unified
school districts with less than 1,501 units of average daily
attendance within each county superintendent's jurisdiction.
(b) For programs operated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section
14054, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall:
(1) Determine the rate calculated for each county office of
education pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 2567 and increase
each rate by a percentage equal to the inflation allowance calculated
in Section 2557.
(2) Multiply each amount determined in paragraph (1) by the
estimated units of average daily attendance in the current fiscal
year for programs for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive,
maintained by each county superintendent. For the purposes of this
paragraph, the estimate shall include only the total units of average
daily attendance credited to all elementary, high school, and
unified school districts within each county superintendent's
jurisdiction and to the county superintendent.
SEC. 2. Section 2551 of the Education Code is amended to read:
2551. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall perform the
computations prescribed in this section to determine each county
superintendent's revenue limit for county superintendent
responsibilities and district services:
(a) For the 1981-82 fiscal year, the superintendent shall add to
the revenue limit amount computed pursuant to subdivision (a) of
Section 2551 for the 1980-81 fiscal year, the revenue limit amount
computed pursuant to Section 2552 for the 1980-81 fiscal year reduced
by 55.9 percent. This adjusted revenue limit shall then be
increased by the inflation allowance calculated in subdivision (a) of
Section 2557.
(b) For the 1981-82 fiscal year and for each fiscal year
thereafter, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall increase
the amount calculated in subdivision (a) by the amounts computed
according to Sections 2507.5 and 2510.
(c) The total amounts for each program calculated pursuant to
subdivision (a) may be used for any of the services or programs
specified in this section, or Section 2552 as it read prior to the
enactment of this act.
(d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 1999, and as
of January 1, 2000, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that
becomes operative on or before January 1, 2000, deletes or extends
the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
SEC. 3. Section 2561 of the Education Code is amended to read:
2561. For purposes of this article, the following definitions
shall apply:
(a) "Countywide ADA" means the aggregate number of annual units of
regular average daily attendance for the fiscal year in all school
districts within the county.
(b) "Services ADA" means the countywide ADA plus 12.5 percent of
the number of full-time equivalent students in community college
districts within the county for which the county office of education
provides fiscal and other services.
(c) "Core revenues" means the sum of the following amounts
received by the county office of education in the fiscal year:
(1) Apportionments received for purposes of subdivision (b) of
Section 2550 and for purposes of county superintendent office
operations and capital outlay.
(2) Any financial support provided to the county office of
education from the general fund of the county, including, but not
limited to, salary and benefits expenditures for county office of
education staff paid for by the county, other expenditures to support
the operations of the county office of education paid for the
county, revenues transferred from the county general fund to the
county office of education, and any other direct or indirect support
provided to the county office of education by the county general
fund. As a condition of receipt of funds pursuant to this article,
the county superintendent of schools shall certify the amount of this
financial support from the county general fund to the Superintendent
of Public Instruction in a manner determined by the Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
SEC. 4. Section 2562 of the Education Code is amended to read:
2562. For purposes of Section 2563, the following classes of
counties shall apply:
(a) Class 1: Counties with 1994-95 countywide ADA of more than
500,000.
(b) Class 2: Counties with 1994-95 countywide ADA of at least
180,000 but less than 500,000.
(c) Class 3: Counties with 1994-95 countywide ADA of at least
60,000 but less than 180,000.
(d) Class 4: Counties with 1994-95 countywide ADA of at least
30,000 but less than 60,000.
(e) Class 5: Counties with 1994-95 countywide ADA of at least
14,000 but less than 30,000.
(f) Class 6: Counties with 1994-95 countywide ADA of at least
7,000 but less than 14,000.
(g) Class 7: Counties with 1994-95 countywide ADA of less than
7,000.
SEC. 5. Section 2563 of the Education Code is amended to read:
2563. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall make the
following calculations for the 1995-96 fiscal year:
(a) For each county office of education, divide its 1994-95 core
revenues by its 1994-95 services ADA.
(b) For each class of counties, except class 1 counties, divide
the sum of the 1994-95 core revenues for all of the county offices
of education in that class by the sum of the services ADA for all of
the counties in that class, and multiply that quotient by 0.88. For
class 1 counties, the amount shall be eighteen dollars and 98 cents
($18.98).
(c) For each county office of education, subtract the amount
determined pursuant to subdivision (a) from the amount determined
pursuant to subdivision (b) of the class of counties of which it is a
member. If this difference is less than zero, it shall be deemed to
be zero.
(d) For each county office of education, multiply the amount
determined pursuant to subdivision (c) by its 1994-95 services ADA.
(e) Divide five million dollars ($5,000,000) by the statewide sum
of the amounts determined pursuant to subdivision (d) and, for each
county office of education, multiply that quotient by the amount
determined for it pursuant to subdivision (d).
SEC. 6. Section 2566 of the Education Code is amended to read:
2566. (a) The total amount apportioned for the 1995-96 fiscal
year pursuant to this article shall not exceed five million dollars
($5,000,000).
(b) This article shall only become operative if the Director of
Finance certifies that a settlement agreement in California Teachers
Association v. Gould (Sacramento County Superior Court Case CV
373415) is effective. No funds shall be disbursed under this article
before August 1, 1996.
(c) For the purpose of making the computations required by Section
8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the appropriations
made by this paragraph for the 1995-96 fiscal year shall be deemed to
be "General Fund revenues appropriated to school districts," as
defined in subdivision (c) of Section 41202 for the 1995-96 fiscal
year and be included within the "total allocations to school
districts and community college districts from General Fund proceeds
of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIIIB," as defined in
subdivision (e) of Section 41202 for that fiscal year.
SEC. 7. Section 2567 is added to the Education Code, to read:
2567. (a) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall
apportion equalization funding for the 1999-2000 fiscal year to the
following county offices of education, adjusted for the deficit
factor pursuant to Section 2558.45, pursuant to the following
schedule:
Alameda .......................... $655,915
Butte ............................ 122,621
Calaveras ........................ 113,407
Colusa ........................... 111,661
Contra Costa ..................... 1,635,257
El Dorado ........................ 134,690
Fresno ........................... 2,524,656
Glenn ............................ 39,294
Humboldt ......................... 144,123
Imperial ......................... 613,130
Kern ............................. 133,470
Kings ............................ 306,758
Lassen ........................... 55,479
Los Angeles ...................... 6,805,186
Madera ........................... 284,994
Merced ........................... 303,003
Nevada ........................... 159,019
Orange ........................... 1,632,568
Placer ........................... 2,771
Sacramento ....................... 2,293,851
San Benito ....................... 129,193
San Bernardino ................... 2,346,446
San Joaquin ...................... 1,317,689
Shasta ........................... 214,714
Solano ........................... 1,087,058
Stanislaus ....................... 1,265,200
Sutter ........................... 305,535
Tehama ........................... 135,315
Trinity .......................... 17,483
Tulare ........................... 1,609,231
Tuolumne ......................... 94,236
Ventura .......................... 343,369
Yolo ............................. 144,922
Yuba ............................. 138,497
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$ 27,220,744
(b) (1) For purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of
Section 2550, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall divide
the amount of equalization aid received by each county office of
education pursuant to subdivision (a) by its 1998-99 countywide ADA
and add the resulting quotient to the 1998-99 core revenue rate per
unit of average daily attendance. For purposes of this calculation,
the core revenue rate per unit of average daily attendance is
determined by dividing the apportionments set forth in paragraph (1)
of subdivision (c) of Section 2561 by the 1998-99 countywide ADA.
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section
2550, for county offices of education not listed in subdivision (a),
the 1998-99 core revenue rate per unit of average daily attendance is
determined by dividing the apportionments set forth in paragraph (1)
of subdivision (c) of Section 2561 by the 1998-99 countywide ADA.
(c) If, in the 1999-2000 fiscal year, insufficient funding is
appropriated to fully fund the schedule set forth in subdivision (a),
the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall allocate the
appropriated funds to county offices of education in proportion to
the scheduled amounts. If funds are appropriated in fiscal years
subsequent to the 1999-2000 fiscal year for purposes of funding the
amounts remaining to fully fund each county office of education in
the amounts listed in subdivision (a) and the amounts appropriated in
those fiscal years are insufficient to fully fund the amounts
remaining, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall in each
subsequent fiscal year allocate the appropriated funds in proportion
to the scheduled amounts until the county offices of education
receive the full amounts listed in the schedule set forth in
subdivision (a).
SEC. 8. Section 14054 of the Education Code is amended to read:
14054. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, during
each fiscal year, allocate to the county school service fund of each
county from the State School Fund an amount that the budget
submitted by the county superintendent of schools and approved by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction, under Section 14050, shows is
necessary, but:
(a) The total amount allocated by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction under this section to all county school service funds for
supervision of instruction and health, attendance, and guidance
services pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 1730) of,
Article 5 (commencing with Section 1740) of, Article 6 (commencing
with Section 1750) of, and Article 7 (commencing with Section 1760)
of, Chapter 6 of Part 2, for pupils in elementary school districts
which, during the next preceding fiscal year, had less than 901 units
of average daily attendance, in high school districts which, during
the preceding year, had less than 301 units of average daily
attendance, and in unified school districts, which during the next
preceding fiscal year, had less than 1,501 units of average daily
attendance, shall not exceed the sum provided by law for this purpose
or the amounts shown necessary by those budgets, for that purpose,
whichever is the lesser.
(b) The total amount allocated by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction under this section to all county school service funds for
all core revenues shall not exceed the sum provided by law for those
purposes or the amounts shown necessary by those budgets, whichever
is the lesser.